Early Human Development


Early Human Development is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering human development published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is E.F. Maalouf. The journal covers research on the continuum between fetal life and the perinatal period, aspects of postnatal growth influenced by early events, and the safeguarding of the quality of human survival.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Current Contents/Life Sciences, EMBASE, Elsevier BIOBASE, MEDLINE, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 2.169.